Polished Tuff — Minecraft block

Overview

Polished Tuff is one of the 3 variants of this shape in the game. What changes between them is the material, and with it the hardness, the drops, the durability and the recipe — so every figure on this page is this variant's own. Tuff is the same shape in a different material.

Polished Tuff is a stone-family block in Minecraft Java Edition 1.21.4. Polished Tuff has a crafting recipe, so it is renewable as long as you can source its ingredients. At a hardness of 1.5 it takes a moment to break but never slows a build down.

It needs at least a wooden pickaxe to drop anything; a weaker tool destroys it for nothing. Mining it returns the block itself, so it is safe to relocate. A full stack holds 64.

It is crafted from Tuff. The stonecutter is the cheaper route: one Tuff gives one of these. 8 recipes call for it, including Polished Tuff Slab, Polished Tuff Stairs, Polished Tuff Wall and 5 more.

About the tuff set

How long it takes to break

Hardness 1.5 puts Polished Tuff at 7.5 seconds a block bare-handed, or 0.25 seconds with the right tool at netherite tier.

Iron manages 0.4 seconds and diamond 0.3, which makes diamond the tier that changes how this block feels.

Below wooden the block breaks and simply vanishes. Bring the right tier or leave it in the ground.

Efficiency contributes its level squared plus one to tool speed, which makes Efficiency V roughly 2.5 times faster than the plain tool.

* breaks the block but yields no drop
Tool	No enchantment	Efficiency III	Efficiency V
Hand *	7.5 s	7.5 s	7.5 s
Wooden	1.2 s	0.2 s	0.1 s
Stone	0.6 s	0.2 s	0.1 s
Iron	0.4 s	0.15 s	0.1 s
Diamond	0.3 s	0.15 s	0.1 s
Netherite	0.25 s	0.15 s	0.1 s
Golden	0.2 s	0.15 s	0.1 s

Properties

With 6 blast resistance Polished Tuff usually goes down to a nearby explosion. It is fully opaque and produces no light. A single slot takes 64, the usual full stack. A pickaxe is the fastest choice here. A tool of the wrong class is no better than your fist — the speed bonus is tied to the block's own tool tag.

Transparent: No
Required tool: Wooden Pickaxe

How to get it

Crafting Table

Polished Tuff ×4

Stonecutter

Tuff

Polished Tuff

Drops

Mined with Wooden Pickaxe, Polished Tuff drops itself.

Polished Tuff

Used to craft

Polished Tuff is an ingredient in 8 recipes, producing Polished Tuff Slab, Polished Tuff Stairs, Polished Tuff Wall, Tuff Bricks, Chiseled Tuff Bricks, Tuff Brick Slab, Tuff Brick Stairs, and Tuff Brick Wall.